Rebecca Ruth Gould is the author of Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom (Verso, 2023). Her book in progress Sex and the State: Marriage and the Origins of Gender Inequality (forthcoming, Stanford University Press). Her writing has been featured by Al Jazeera and published by London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Arab, Jacobin, and Middle East Eye. She is the editor, author, and publisher of The Textual Materialist. She also runs the Poetry & Protest channel on YouTube.